Year: 2017

In this article, we build a simple demonstration of a Canny Edge Detector using OpenCV, Python, and the onboard camera of the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 Development Kit. Looky here: Background Back in 1986, John F. Canny developed the Canny Edge detector. The Canny Edge is one of the image processing Read more …

At a recent MIT/Lincoln Labs 2017 Beaver Works Summer Institute Seminar, Ariel Anders gave a lecture on route planning with regards to mobile robot navigation. Looky here: Background There are many parts to mobile robot navigation. As this information is used directly in programming the MIT RACECAR, a NVIDIA Jetson Read more …

Note: This article has been superseded. Please see Build OpenCV 3.4 with CUDA on NVIDIA Jetson TX1. With the deprecation of OpenCV4Tegra in L4T 28.1, developers may want to build OpenCV from source for their applications. There is a script on the JetsonHacks Github account to help in the process. Read more …

Recently Peter Moran wrote an article titled CSI Cameras on the TX2 (The Easy Way) Money Quote: We’re going to look at utilizing the Jetson’s image processing powers and capturing video from the TX2’s own special CSI camera port. Specifically, I’ll show you: Why you’d even want a CSI camera. Read more …

At a recent MIT/Lincoln Labs 2017 Beaver Works Summer Institute Seminar, Mike Boulet gave a lecture on localization with regards to mobile robot navigation. Looky here: Background There are many parts to mobile robot navigation. As this information is used directly in programming the MIT RACECAR, a NVIDIA Jetson based Read more …

Ever wonder which L4T version is running on your NVIDIA Jetson Development Kit? There’s a script for that! Looky here: Background If you are a newcomer to the Jetson, some of the references to the operating system that runs on the device can be a little confusing. The operating system Read more …

Ok, maybe you were busy flossing the cat, or assembling a dog from a kit and didn’t have time to check out the lectures for CS231n from Stanford, Spring 2017. Looky here: Why You Should Watch This Series One of the really interesting things that has happened over the last Read more …

Intel RealSense cameras can use an open source library called librealsense as a driver for the Jetson TX1 and TX2 development kits. Looky here: Background With the release of L4T 28.1, both the Jetson TX1 and Jetson TX2 run on a Linux 4.4 version kernel. The 4.4 kernel has built-in Read more …

Note: This article has been superseded. Please see: Build Kernel and Modules – NVIDIA Jetson TX1. In this article, we cover building the kernel and modules for the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Development Kit onboard the Jetson itself. We also build the ACM module, which allows the Jetson to communicate with Read more …

Using a SSD as the root directory for development on a Jetson Development Kit provides many advantages, including faster disk times and much more storage. It’s easy to do! Looky here: Background With the advent of L4T 28.1, both the Jetson TX1 and the Jetson TX2 both run the same Read more …